Movie clips from Doctor Zhivago, Thunderball, A Thousand Clowns, Girl Happy, Help and Cat Ballou
Academy Awards 1965
Picture: "THE SOUND OF MUSIC", "Darling", "Doctor Zhivago", "Ship of Fools", "A Thousand Clowns"
Actor: LEE MARVIN in "Cat Ballou", Richard Burton in "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold", Laurence Olivier in "Othello", Rod Steiger in "The Pawnbroker", Oskar Werner in "Ship of Fools"
Actress: JULIE CHRISTIE in "Darling", Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music", Samantha Eggar in "The Collector", Elizabeth Hartman in "A Patch of Blue", Simone Signoret in "Ship of Fools"
Supporting Actor: MARTIN BALSAM in "A Thousand Clowns", Ian Bannen in "The Flight of the Phoenix", Tom Courtenay in "Doctor Zhivago", Michael Dunn in "Ship of Fools", Frank Finlay in "Othello"
Supporting Actress: SHELLEY WINTERS in "A Patch of Blue", Ruth Gordon in "Inside Daisy Clover", Joyce Redman in "Othello", Maggie Smith in "Othello", Peggy Wood in "The Sound of Music"
Director: ROBERT WISE for "The Sound of Music", David Lean for "Doctor Zhivago", John Schlesinger for "Darling", Hiroshi Teshigahara for "Woman in the Dunes", William Wyler for "The Collector"
Best Foreign Language Film: The Shop on Main Street
Directed by Ján Kadár and starring Ida Kamińska and Jozef Kroner. A Black & White Czechoslovakia film with sub titles takes a surreal journey though the lives of an old Jewish woman and a Nazi collaborator as a small Chech town rounds up Jews for the Holocaust. A very very good movie.
Top Box Office 1965
What's New Pussycat? - First screenplay and movie role by Woody Allan. A romantic comedy starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and
Ursula Andress.
The Sandpiper
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Goldfinger
My Fair Lady
Shenandoah
Father Goose
New Movies 1965
Darling
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Pawnbroker
Ship of Fools
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Boeing Boeing
Bunny Lake Is Missing
The Collector
The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)
The Flight of the Phoenix
Girl Happy
The Great Race
The IPCRESS File
Juliet of the Spirits
Life at the Top
The Rounders
Shenandoah
Ship of Fools
That Darn Cat!
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
The Train
What's New Pussycat began as a project by Warren Beatty. In fact the name of the movie was from how he answered the phone at the time. The studio hired newcomer Woody Allen to write the screenplay which reduced Beatty's role and enhanced Allen's. The studio sided with the far funnier script from Woody Allen causing Beatty to leave the project in a huff. 40 years later the two still do not speak.
Good Movies 1965
Doctor Zhivago - Following the success of Lawarce of Arabia, Director David Lean creates another big movie for the big screen. From the novel by Boris Pasternak starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie,
Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger and Alec Guinness.
A Patch of Blue - Produced, written and directed by Guy Green. Starring Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman and Shelly Winters who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of the nasty racist mother in this interacial love story. The scene of Poitier and Hartman kissing was taken out of the movie when it played in theaters in the Southern United States.
The Pawnbroker - Sidney Lumet directs Rod Steiger as a New York pawn broker gone sour as a survivor of the Holocaust. The first major movie to deal with that Nazi Horror in an unsantized way. Steiger should have won the Oscar.
Thunderball - The fourth Bond film had no celebrity leading lady and no great song but its water oriented special effects made it the biggest Bond film thus far. Starring Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi and Luciana Paluzzi.
For a Few Dollars More - The second of Sergio Leone's "Dollar" spaghetti western trilogy. Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè and Klaus Kinski. Like the previous movie, Fistfull of Dollars it did not appear in America until 1967.
A Thousand Clowns- Jason Robards plays Murry the man-child comedy writer, child actor Barry Gordon plays the adult role, Barbra Harris is the love interest and Martin Balsam wins an Academy Award as the sensible big brother.
B Movies 1965
Invasion of Astro-Monster - Godzilla saves us from monsters from outerspace. Starring Nick Adams and Happy Feet Godzilla!
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - The first of Milton Subotsky "portmanteau films" starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The series went on with Torture Garden (1967), The House That Dripped Blood (1970), Asylum (1972), Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Vault of Horror (film) (1973), From Beyond the Grave (1973) and Tales That Witness Madness (1974).
Doctor Zhivago - 
A Patch of Blue - 
The Pawnbroker - Sidney Lumet
For a Few Dollars More - 
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors -
